Publisher's Synopsis
A behind-the-scenes look at the heavyweight boxer, Mike Tyson and his world and his rise to fame as a champion boxer, by the boxing reporter for "The New York Times". The author examines his private and public life and follows his passage from a warm-up fighter through to the 91-second fight against Michael Spinks that earned him $20 million. In 1988 Phil Berger was named Boxing Writer of the Year by the World Boxing Association. The author has followed the trainers, the managers and the promoters, the wives and the girlfriends and other fighters - Sugar Ray Leonard, Don King and Muhammad Ali are profiled and gives an insight into his relationship with his sometime wife, actress Robin Givens.
